{"id":16,"date":"2015-07-13T17:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/?p=16"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:14:28","slug":"case2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/case2\/","title":{"rendered":"Case 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav style=\"font-size:1.1em;font-style:normal;font-weight:600\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color is-responsive has-text-decoration-underline wp-block-navigation is-layout-flex wp-container-core-navigation-is-layout-97309cd2 wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Menu\" \n\t\t data-wp-interactive=\"core\/navigation\" data-wp-context='{\"overlayOpenedBy\":{\"click\":false,\"hover\":false,\"focus\":false},\"type\":\"overlay\",\"roleAttribute\":\"\",\"ariaLabel\":\"Menu\"}'><button aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Open menu\" class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-open\" 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class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/more-from-the-collection\/\" title=\"\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">More From the Collection<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/nav>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Case 2<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/06\/redBox2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-721\" 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https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_HPL2015ill009_1md-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_HPL2015ill009_1md-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_HPL2015ill009_1md-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_HPL2015ill009_1md-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/2_bdr424474_01md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/2_bdr424474_01md.jpg\" alt=\"Handwritten letter\" class=\"wp-image-145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/2_bdr424474_01md.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/2_bdr424474_01md-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/2_bdr424474_01md-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/2_bdr424474_01md-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/2_bdr424474_01md-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><span style=\"color: #9a3641\">\u2026 all I know of dreams seems to contradict flatly the \u201csymbolism\u201d theories of Freud.<br>\nIt may be that others, with less sheer phantasy filling their minds, have dreams of the Freudian sort;<br>\nbut it is very certain that I don\u2019t. *<\/span><\/em><br>\nH. P. Lovecraft to Robert Bloch, 1933 August 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From plot ideas to fantastic settings and frightful beings, many of Lovecraft\u2019s tales were inspired by dreams. The letter and illustration in this case are part of a string of correspondence written over several months in which Lovecraft relates a memorable dream to both Robert Bloch and Clark Ashton Smith.  Writing to Bloch, Lovecraft described both the content of the dream and his interest in using dreams as \u201cweird fiction material.\u201d  His young mentee responded with a drawing of the figure that haunted Lovecraft\u2019s sleep and a promise to compose a story about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Lovecraft\u2019s own dreams and the atmospheric quality of stories by Lord Dunsany and Edgar Allan Poe, the progenitors of the modern horror and fantasy genres, influenced the author\u2019s creation of the imaginary realms and other-worldly elements that became the defining characteristics of his eponymous genre of fiction\u2014Lovecraftian horror. He regularly discussed these influences with those in his circle. A selection of Lovecraft\u2019s work has been categorized as the \u201cDream Cycle.\u201d This Cycle includes all of the tales that take place within the \u201cDreamlands\u201d\u2014alternate dimensions that can only be accessed through sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou astonish me when you say you dream but twice a year. I can never drop off for a second\u2014not even in my easy\u2014chair or over my desk\u2014without having dreams of the most vivid sort; not always bizarre or fantastic, but always clear-cut and lifelike. I seldom dream of recent everyday things, but tend to hark back 30 years or more to my boyhood\u2013which was by all odd the happiest period of my existence. [\u2026.] But besides these comparatively mundane dreams, I occasionally have boldly fantastic ones which make good weird fictional material. Only last night I was with a party of silent, apprehensive men armed with some peculiar occult device like an ankh or crux ansata\u2013climbing up ladders and picking a precarious way over the huddled sagging roofs of a rotting and incredibly ancient town, in search of a vague being of infinite + incredible evil which had been inflicting the inhabitants. Once\u2014in the light of a leprous, waning moon\u2013we saw It\u2026.a black, large-eared, crouching thing about the size of a large dog, + roughly resembling one of the Notre Dame gargoyles. [\u2026] That\u2019s all there was to it\u2014not enough for a story, but typical of the sort of dream I have every week or so\u2014or perhaps twice a week. This kind of dreaming is not as rare as one might think\u2014I suppose you know that Edward Lucas White derives initially all his strange and highly original stories from actual dreams he has experienced. Did I tell you of the dreams I had at the age of six, when I used to encounter a flock of bat-winged entities to which I gave the name of \u2018night gaunts(?)\u2019? I may add that<strong> all I know of dreams seems to contradict flatly the \u2018symbolism\u2019 theories of Freud. It may be that others, with less sheer phantasy filling their minds, have dreams of the Freudian sort; but it is very certain that I don\u2019t.<\/strong>\u201d<br>H. P. Lovecraft to Robert Bloch, 1933 August 4 (Arkham House dates this letter to 1933 September)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Case Contents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft (Providence, Rhode Island 1890-1937 Providence, Rhode Island)<br>Letter to Robert Bloch<\/strong><br>1933 August 4 (Arkham House dates this letter to 1933 September)<br>Autograph letter signed (four pages on two sheets)<br>John Hay Library. Howard P. Lovecraft Collection, 1894-1971.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/riamco.org\/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-mslovecraft&amp;view=title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MS.Lovecraft<\/a><br>First and second page of a four-page letter written from Providence, Rhode Island. Text from page one reproduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Robert Bloch (Chicago, Illinois 1917-1994 Los Angeles, California)<\/strong><br>Dream Thing<br>Circa 1933<br>Crayon on paper<br>John Hay Library. Star Collection.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b5191939~S7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RARE 3-S PS3523.O82 Z98 L7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case 2 \u2026 all I know of dreams seems to contradict flatly the \u201csymbolism\u201d theories of Freud. It may be that others, with less sheer phantasy filling their minds, have dreams of the Freudian sort; but it is very certain that I don\u2019t. * H. P. 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